How to make a speech bubble in GIMP
- First of all open any image and create a new ‘layer’ and add it to your image.
- Click on the transparency and then click ‘ok’.
- From the right menu bar choose the ‘elliptical’ icon to make a round balloon.
- Select the 'free select tool' and select ‘mode’ to 'add to current selection' and then draw a triangle with the base inside the previous balloon and the pointed end outside the balloon.
- Select the 'bucket fill' tool and make sure your ‘background’ color is selected as white and the 'affected area' as ‘fill whole selection’.
- Click inside the text balloon where it immediately changes into white color.
- To make a black border, go to 'select' from the top menu and from the drop down select the 'to path'.
- Again go to 'select' and check 'none'.
- Go to 'edit' and click on 'stroke path' and then from the side menu click the ‘background’ color to make it black.
- In the stroke path menu select line width as 4 and then select ‘stroke’.
- This way the black border gets drawn.
- Hide this layer and make a new layer and with the same settings.
- Repeat the process but choose a rectangular text balloon but with round corners. That’s it.